Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
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Artist: SemisonicEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1998-03-24
Music Label: Mca UK
Soundtracks:
- Closing Time
- Singing In My Sleep
- Made To Last
- Never You Mind
- Secret Smile
- DND
- Completely Pleased
- This Will Be My Year
- All Worked Out
- California
- She Speads Her Wings
- Gone To The Movies
Free Music Notes for Feeling Strangely Fine
Free Music Review: Lying on the floor of my bedroom with headphones on...
Hit: 5 Stars
...that is the memory I associate with "Feeling Strangely Fine". Everyone has an album or two to plug into this particular teenage rite, and seeing as I was about four years too late for grunge, Semisonic and their contemporaries, for better or worse, became "my music".
I was a freshman in high school in 1998, awkward and geeky, with emotions crackling inside of me like Pop Rocks dumped into a can of Diet Coke. Hackneyed similes aside, this record became a part of my life and was the soundtrack for all of those nights spent staring up at the ceiling of my room thinking "deep thoughts" or driving around aimlessly in my crappy car with friends. In some respects I may have moved on from the likes of "Closing Time" or "Made To Last", but I'll always drag them around in my head and on my cd shelf.
These songs are not the edgiest, but rarely are they too saccharine or fluffy. Some might call Semisonic's music bland, but Feeling Strangely Fine's tracks are too multi-layered and thoughtful to deserve that harsh adjective. I would argue it's quite the opposite.
I choose to offer this album up as the epitome of 90s pop rock. It is the mid-est of mid-tempo and damned proud of it! Perhaps "Feeling Strangely Fine" never quite took hold of the music-buying public because it walked the line a bit too well: a song like "Singing In My Sleep", for example, is too rockin' to be adult contemporary and not quite heavy enough to be considered alt. rock. Semisonic never quite found a home, I guess you could say.
In spite of my crackpot pop music theories and naked sentimentality, though, you should give this album another listen. These guys are talented musicians who know how write and perform some great songs. Maybe I'm a bit too close to this album to ever speak ill of it, but I dare you to completely trash any album that your 16-year old self listened to late at night, wondering if that girl sitting in front of you in biology would go out with you.
Feeling Strangely Fine Poster
Japanese edition of the band's acclaimed hit 1998 albumfeauturing the Post Modern smash 'Closing Time' and thebonus track 'Sculpture Garden', from their 1995 mini-album'Pleasure'. 13 tracks total. Inquiring minds want to know:Semisonic features former Trip Shakespeare members DanWilson and John Munson. An MCA release.The second record from this Minneapolis trio firmly established them as one of the most promising hard-edged pop bands to surface in the 1990s. The leadoff track, the modern rock radio hit "Closing Time," neatly encapsulates everything that makes Semisonic special, from its irresistibly catchy chorus to an ingeniously minimalist keyboard riff to a simple lyric that speaks volumes to the 20-something nightclubbing set. Elsewhere, the band broadens its base with touches of psychedelic production ("California"), boogie-woogie- influenced piano ("Never You Mind") and tender string accompaniment ("Gone to the Movies"). The disc drags a bit in the middle with less memorable tracks such as "Completely Pleased" and "This Will Be My Year," but overall, Feeling Strangely Fine finds Semisonic blooming radiantly. --Peter Blackstock
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